Why James is best trainer.
1. Asks his pokemon to be his
2. Is super patient with his pokemon and loves then unconditionally
3. Master of Disguise
4. We find out about his back story though the Hoenn and Unova series
5. He actually feels for his team mates, sacrificing himself multiple times to let them have a better life
6. He saves up bottlecaps because he knows Fallout is coming
7. That rose
8. He may be naive at times, but he has a heart of gold deep down

Wasn't his backstory before Hoenn? As far as I remember it, he comes from a rich family and had a Growlithe. And for some reason Jesse and Meowth dressed in black and were puppeteering him the whole time.

they puppeteer him so they could get his money. However, Jessiebelle kind of ****** all that **** up. You know, now that I'm older and I rewatched Holy Matrimony, I noticed that Jessiebelle is a complete sadist with a **** ton of things she can use (such as a whip). I think James should count his ass lucky Jessiebelle wasn't able to capture him for long.

no the orange island victory was against drake, Ash beat gary in the Johto Championships and lost the next round to a one off character who only appeard one other time in the series as background character.

Yeah, I remember it now. Rewatching it now, the whole show seems silly and really childish. As a kid I could watch one episode 10 times. Now I couldn't stand for more than half an episode, even with nostalgia.

I browse Reddit and get exactly what I want based on the subreddit I visit:
* /r/programming
* /r/linux
* /r/rust
* /r/ada
* etc.

They often enforce codes of conduct (at least the one's I visit, see the first stickied post on /r/rust), it has a pretty good rating system, and some nice filtering heuristics, too. Funnyjunk is way better for funny, Reddit is way better for pretty much everything else.

Not mad or anything, but you said you didn't know and asked the difference. Living in ignorance is nothing to be proud of, especially when your ignorance is based on wrong information.